How is easy is your job or a job you have
done in this industry. Mine would be a run
to abingdon and leicester where everything
was forklifted off and all I had to do is use a
pallet truck to move a few pallets to the back
of the truck so the forklift driver could get them
off and then move the new stuff to the front and
the rest was driving and waiting. It was a 05:30
start and finished at 17:00 at £6.60 an hour working
for excel through agency.
Run from Leicester - Milton Keynes this AM. Run back when loaded. Go round the corner for a full load. Home for 14.30 with an 07-30am start. Lovely 
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Do you do any unloading Liberace if not it sounds
like you have got a good job. What’s the hardest part
of your job Liberace and is there any demountable trucks
at your place and do you drive them 
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convoy:
Do you do any unloading Liberace if not it sounds
like you have got a good job. What’s the hardest part
of your job Liberace and is there any demountable trucks
at your place and do you drive them
Their are demountable bodies and I do do unloading, normally on the [zb] warmest day of the year 
. Apart from that it is a decent job. The drop I did today their isn’t anything to unload, it’s done for you. You just have to keep an eye on them (easier than it sounds ).
Stirland’s night trunk to Bristol from Nottingham back in the 70s. Start 9pm, pick up trailer at Boots, swop trailers firstly at Western Transport at Avonmouth then later at Brislington (or was it the other way round) then back home, drop trailer, refuel, quick splash over the unit then home. Usually by 3am. Bed till 10am, rest of the day to myself.
Only trouble was I had too much time on my hands, got involved selling cars part time with a mate, then he backed out and I had to pack in the trunk to keep the business going.
Lost a good job there. 30 hours a week for 50 hours pay. Lovely. Never mind I needed a hearing aid connected to the portable radio on the engine hump of my Mk2 Atki! But she could fly. No traffic jams (except M5 on summer Fridays) and no speed limiters.
Salut, David.
Used to deliver the Mini dashboards into BMW Cowley, twice a day, from Redditch. The whole loading/unloading process was automated - press a button inside the factory and the whole lot would unload itself, press another and the empties would load automatically. The hardest thing to do was opening the back doors!
Theres a similar system on the Bird’s Eye contract at Frigoscandia, Hams Hall - 26 pallets unloaded from a reefer in less than a minute.
bloomin’ hard.
multidropping in a bendy into random locations around the UK including Brum and London, to little corner shops etc where the sites are barely suitable for a 7.5tonner or a van, let alone a full length artic.
brummie:
Used to deliver the Mini dashboards into BMW Cowley
Were they for dinky toys
the easiest job i SHOULD have ever had was a wagon and drag job for TNT from farlington services to birmingham. follow 2 other trucks there, fuel up, bodies removed by forklift and loaded ones put on, run back.
unfortunately, one of our loads had been put on 2 rigids so we had to go to their depot in birmingham to swap it all around
Yesterday was pretty easy.
7 hour day, 7 am start, 1 drop Bradford. All I did was open the back doors. 
el gordo 78:
bloomin’ hard.multidropping in a bendy into random locations around the UK including Brum and London, to little corner shops etc where the sites are barely suitable for a 7.5tonner or a van, let alone a full length artic.
Who you working for and is that your usual run and job .
It dont sound nice multidropping in a bendy does the
money make it worth the hassle
The first Class 2 job I had after passing my test was mainly multi-drop around Essex, but every now and then I would be given a trip to Swindon.
In for 8.00am and wait for 3/4 hr then drive 5mins round the corner to collect a full load of clothing where I would wait around again for about an hour or so while I was loaded then set off to Swindon. Break while I was tipped there then drive back finishing about 5.30pm. Nice easy day, didn’t even get held up around the M25 
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convoy:
el gordo 78:
bloomin’ hard.multidropping in a bendy into random locations around the UK including Brum and London, to little corner shops etc where the sites are barely suitable for a 7.5tonner or a van, let alone a full length artic.
Who you working for and is that your usual run and job
It dont sound nice multidropping in a bendy does the
money make it worth the hassle
Working for Bibby Distribution for Nisa Today’s, delivering to places like select n save, nisa, cost cutter and other syndicated/franchised independent local stores.
There’s over 4000 stores so I’m yet to anywhere more than once (apart from a store in barnstaple I’ve been to 3 times because I enjoy the 2 day job and others dont).
Considering many Scunthorpe jobs pay less than £7.50 an hour, the money is definitely worth it. around £9.50 an hour for the first 8 hours, time and a half after that. Sundays about £12 an hour flat rate and Sundays £16 an hour flat rate. Thats agency rates btw. Their main driver base is salaried and pretty well paid too by all accounts.
For example, night trunkers, 3 days work a week down to avonmouth, occasional backloads, selecting their own time of departure, on roughly £22k.
Wagons are mostly within 3 years of age, MANs with comfort shift, air con, reasonable cab size with low floor and nice bunks. There’s a couple of sheds still on the fleet in case of others being unserviceable but its rare to need to use them.
the worst bit of the job is how varied the customers and their sites are. you get everything from a nice easy approach, reverse and people who help you on and off with stuff, some even have electric pumps or forklifts and take them off the tail lift for you. others are nadgery tight places in difficult locations, and customers who stand back arms folded, or disappear while you try and move pallets loaded with pop, up a slope with kerbs and ramps, rough surfaces and all sorts, with the pallets demanded round a corner so having to lock up the back of the wagon every time.
very few nightmarish ones but plenty of very hard ones, so you certainly earn your money!
I mostly enjoy it though.
The easiest ever on haulage was a few years back.
I drove from Cambridge into Liconshire each night in either a 6 legged rigid or a bendy, pulled onto bay walked into rest area / canteen & waited to be told to go home.
I worked a 10 hour shift & drove for 2 hours.
The job was moving soup.
Most nights this involved 2-3 pallets at the most & all I did was either moved in any extra they needed from the stores or returned any over production to the stores.
So not only did I not do anything, but I carried practically nothing also.
When I worked for the rental company it was not uncommon to have a car ride out to collect units only to find they did not need collecting so we returned as a passenger also. Not that running around in empty trucks was hard work to start with.
One day I drove a rental out to Snetterton (half hour up the road, swap this for a second unit, drive solo to Daventry to collect a trailer, deliver the trailer to Milton Keynes then return to Norwich solo.
we often use to drive to places like Bristol, Manchester etc & then return as pasengers in a hired car or the company mini bus.
el gordo 78:
convoy:
el gordo 78:
bloomin’ hard.multidropping in a bendy into random locations around the UK including Brum and London, to little corner shops etc where the sites are barely suitable for a 7.5tonner or a van, let alone a full length artic.
Who you working for and is that your usual run and job
It dont sound nice multidropping in a bendy does the
money make it worth the hassleWorking for Bibby Distribution for Nisa Today’s, delivering to places like select n save, nisa, cost cutter and other syndicated/franchised independent local stores.
There’s over 4000 stores so I’m yet to anywhere more than once (apart from a store in barnstaple I’ve been to 3 times because I enjoy the 2 day job and others dont).
Considering many Scunthorpe jobs pay less than £7.50 an hour, the money is definitely worth it. around £9.50 an hour for the first 8 hours, time and a half after that. Sundays about £12 an hour flat rate and Sundays £16 an hour flat rate. Thats agency rates btw. Their main driver base is salaried and pretty well paid too by all accounts.
For example, night trunkers, 3 days work a week down to avonmouth, occasional backloads, selecting their own time of departure, on roughly £22k.Wagons are mostly within 3 years of age, MANs with comfort shift, air con, reasonable cab size with low floor and nice bunks. There’s a couple of sheds still on the fleet in case of others being unserviceable but its rare to need to use them.
the worst bit of the job is how varied the customers and their sites are. you get everything from a nice easy approach, reverse and people who help you on and off with stuff, some even have electric pumps or forklifts and take them off the tail lift for you. others are nadgery tight places in difficult locations, and customers who stand back arms folded, or disappear while you try and move pallets loaded with pop, up a slope with kerbs and ramps, rough surfaces and all sorts, with the pallets demanded round a corner so having to lock up the back of the wagon every time.
very few nightmarish ones but plenty of very hard ones, so you certainly earn your money!I mostly enjoy it though.
Money sounds ok and you are enjoying it thats
the main thing and it is giving you experience of
tight drops ect. When I did a day for rank hovis at
rotherham there was an artic driver telling the other
drivers how he had to do a drop to a shop on the high
street and park about 100 yards up the road and
handball bags of flour to a shop where they wanted
him to go up a ladder stack it in the loft which he declined
and they complained. He said someone was going to do
an assessment on the drops.
Best i ever had was when I did a year or so of agency work. Did a lot from Freemans Mail order in Peterborough on artics overnight to the various RDC’s, which was easy anough but then they asked me one night to take a 7.5 tonner out because they only used HGV drivers & the others didn’t like the dinky toy … OK fairy nuff 
I did the job night after night
Peterborough to London COlney (75 miles)
Drink coffee whie it was being tipped (15 mins)
Lc to Peterborough, refuel & home
4 hours a night for 8 hours pay
i suppose my “job” now is as easy but it isn’t truck driving do don’t count
As a fridge driver, I consider all fridge work to be easy
till yesterday!!!
Three times this week, I have been to Lidl’s at Weston-Super-Mud. So three times I have had to tip 33 pallets of spinach and lettuce. NO problems all week till yesterday 
I was mucked about at the Farm Thursday night and never got loaded till 1110pm So I decided 'sod ‘em’ and went home. I was home by 1145 and left again at 9am yesterday morning. There is a Midday cut-off at Lidl’s but I knew I had plenty of time. Arrived at 1115. At 1330 I finally got on a bay!! 
Backed on, got me little truck and took the first 13 pallets of lettuce off.
Then the fun started!! I had 20 pallets of spinach… now a pallet of spinach weighs nothing (you can move it by hand) and I suddenly discovered I couldn’t get them out! As I pulled the pallet, it was tipping over. Why■■? Because the stupid stupid people at the Farm (mostly imported summer workers) had shrink wrapped the pallets the wrong way round!! They had left the sticky side on the outside!! Every pallet was stuck together!!! Because there was no weight to them, I couldn’t split them without tipping them. After 10 minutes discussion with the very helpful young lad in the Goods In bay, he went to his Office to hopefully get the load rejected. Phone calls from his Head Office to the supplier and from me to my Boss resulted in me being told that the supplier wasn’t going to pay for them to be returned and I had to get them off the best way I could. The language down my phone between our TM and myself would be severely edited if I printed it here
I, in a temper, just pulled the first pallet out and watched the first two go tumbling. Everyone looked at me as the air was very very blue!! To my amazement, I lost my temper completely. I kicked at one of the pallets and there was bags of spinach and little boxes flying everywhere!!! It went silent. I then stood and restacked the two pallets and NO ONE said a word Pallets accepted, damaged boxes and all.
After I had restacked another 2 pallets, I decided I had had enough and went and sat outsdide in the sunshine, made myself a cuppa and had a ■■■ or two. Came back 30 minutes later. Still 14 pallets to get off and it was now 5pm LOLOLOL
I looked at it and could have cried when the young lad came up and said ‘I got an idea’. I informed him all ideas were acceptable.
He told me what he thought may work. we tried it and IT WORKED!!! 30 minutes later all 14 pallets were off in one piece! I fiannly left there at 1745 and headed home. The TM rang me about 1900 and was very apoligetic and asked how it had gone. We discussed it and by now, I had calmed down and was laughing about it. He promised me a decent run for next week as reward. we shall see lol
Now the question is… the wrap was on back to front… so the pallets were stuck together … ie to the one next to it, the one behind it and to the trailer wall.
SO WHAT DID THE LAD SUGGEST THAT WORKED■■? SO SIMPLE AND YET I WOULD NEVER HAVE THOUGHT OF IT
ANY IDEAS■■? I SHALL POST THE ANSWER BEFORE LEAVING TOMORROW
June 1974, I was asked to go up to the Atkinson factory in Preston and collect a Borderer unit that had been back there for repair after being turned over. The vehicle owner picked me up at home, drove me to Euston and I got a fast train to Preston, cab to the works and picked up the Borderer.
Easy drive back to Hatfield, fast, and nothing much for the ■■■■■■■ engine to do. It seems hard now to realise that, in those days, to drive at well over 70 was nothing unusual. Not only were there no limiters but no phones, cameras or tachos, just the good old logbook, to try and remember to fill in.
Anyway, I was dropped back home and the owner peeled some notes off the roll he always carried. Next day back to work at my real job, I’d phoned in sick from Euston the previous day.
That had to be the easiest, there were many runners-up.
Easiest? Deep sea (no touch) container work out of Felixstowe. 'Nuf said.
My current job is containers too, but it’s Short Sea so there’s a small amount of self-tip and taut work, plus the odd 20ft open-sider (like doing tilts only rustier ). Still not exactly taxing, though… 
The downside to container work, mind, is the hours…they tend to be long, and you soon get to understand the Split-Shift part of the tacho rules and all it’s possibilities… 
Now the question is… the wrap was on back to front… so the pallets were stuck together … ie to the one next to it, the one behind it and to the trailer wall.
I will make myself look a fool first. …
CUT the shrinkwrap ■■